The papacy of Leo XIV begins

At Mass on Sunday, the 267th pope called for peace in ongoing conflicts, and wished Happy Mother's Day. It represents both continuity and change for this two-thousand-year-old church, now – for the first time – led by an American pope.

Dressed in those storied papal vestments is a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing, White Sox fan from Chicago, a former math major at Villanova University who's now pontiff – Pope Leo XIV.

Ahead of the conclave that selected Robert Prevost, there was the scramble for clues from cardinals. When we asked Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco if there had been names mentioned, he replied, "No. No names. No names."